Thursday, March 20, 2014

Sorry about the interruption of service; I was out of town for a bit, and when I got back I started agonizing over the next Battle Angel review, because it's my favorite volume of the series and I really want to do it justice. I'm tempted to just stay quiet for the next couple weeks and build up a posting buffer like I should've done before restarting.

In the meantime, I wanted to point everyone at Sarah Horrocks' blog. I tend not to talk about art because I have pretty much no critical vocabulary there, so I'm really glad to find someone who does. I especially love her posts on Blade ofthe Immortal, and this bit on Jiro Matsumoto is also choice, but it's pretty much all great stuff.

Eastern Standard magazine

These are the 4 issues of the fanzine we produced a while back (2002-2004). They're rough, but they're also the foundation for a lot of what we've built since then, including this site.
Click on the issues to bring up the full reader.
Issue 1 focused on Berserk, Jin-roh, and Asian live-action movies. It also had a memorable review of Gundress.

Issue 2 was a dissection of FLCL (it explains it all, really) and the work of Taiyo Matsumoto.